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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:04:14 +0200
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Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 03:33:50PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> Good to see you=E2=80=99re running your own service!
>
> It is used for GeneNetwork - a complex web service. It uses git for
> byte-identical installs and a Guix server for distributing the
> binaries. This is my current way to making sure everyone is running
> the exact same software tree and get binary installs.
>
> The installation notes are here:
>
>   https://github.com/pjotrp/genenetwork2/blob/paper/doc/README.org#quick-=
installation-recipe

Nice!  One limitation that may be a problem for you is that =E2=80=98guix
publish=E2=80=99 doesn=E2=80=99t yet compress the archives it serves.

> It is not as easy as 'guix package -i genenetwork2'. But then, it
> works (TM). People are installing it this way.

Is there anything particular preventing you from writing a genenetwork2
package?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.